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Command line Programs to manage text

cat(1)
Concatinate files to standard out
sort(1)
a filter to sort text
uniq(1)
a filter to remove duplicate lines from a file
grep(1)
a filter to find regex(7)'s in files
tr(1)
a filter to translate from one charactor set to another
sed(1)
a simple script editor, mostly used for it's search and replace
join(1)
a filter to join two files together based on a common column
cut(1)
a filter to "cut" out different columns
paste(1)
the reverse of cut
awk(1)
a simple scripting language for managing (mangling?) text files
perl(1)
The swiss army knife of text processing
python(1)
Yet another swiss army knife of text processing

Perhaps you were more interested in TextEditors?